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Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Arts and Entertainment "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Arts and Entertainment
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Arts and Entertainment Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Arts and Entertainment
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Arts and Entertainment "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Arts and Entertainment
If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Arts and Entertainment Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Arts and Entertainment
You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Arts and Entertainment "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Arts and Entertainment
"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Arts and Entertainment "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Arts and Entertainment
A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Arts and Entertainment If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Arts and Entertainment
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Arts and Entertainment
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Arts and Entertainment "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Arts and Entertainment
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Arts and Entertainment I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment
In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Arts and Entertainment The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Arts and Entertainment
